HEATHER HORST

Prof Heather Horst is a Chief Investigator at the University of Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).

Heather A. Horst, FAHA is Professor of Design Anthropology at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney, Australia.

A sociocultural anthropologist by training, she researches material culture, mobility, and the mediation of social relations, through the study of homes, clothing, and technology.

Her publications include The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication; Hanging Around, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media; Digital Anthropology; Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practices; The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Island Perspectives; and Digital Media Practices in Households.

She is also the Executive Producer of documentary films on smartphones and parenting in Fiji, mobile phone infrastructures in Papua New Guinea, and a forthcoming film on the Fijian fashion industry.